Letters: Benghazi questions

In response to “You have the blood of an American hero on your hands” (Editorial, Oct, 31): THANK YOU for having the courage to make a stand and demand honesty from our current administration and anyone involved in the communications profession who is reporting on “what happened” in Benghazi on Sept. 11. I appreciate your willingness to break ranks with the mainstream media and demand answers to hard questions – now! Yes, this is “a story – a gigantic story,” as you rhetorically asked in your editorial [Wednesday]. Especially for us in San Diego County, who lost two of our own, this is a huge priority in our minds, particularly in light of a choice we will be making on Tuesday.

I also appreciate [Thursday’s] article on the four GOP senators who are demanding answers from Obama. – Max Newbold, El Cajon

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Isn’t it a crime to judge a current president? Let history be the judge of President Obama, but certainly not when he’s the current president. – Donald Sevier, Chula Vista

Shame on the U-T, Fox News, and Republican politicians for politicizing the terrorist attack/riot in Benghazi just before the election.

Question: Where was the outrage over 9/11 when it has been documented that the Bush administration was clearly warned about a terrorist plot prior to the attack in June and again in August of 2001? Republicans were strangely silent about blame afterward and no one was ever held accountable for this tragic loss of life.

To try to turn this into an incident that President Obama is to be blamed for is wrong and not in the best interest of this country. The best approach is to come together as Americans and come up with solutions that will help prevent this type of incident from happening again, just as we have taken security measures to help prevent another 9/11. A good start would be to restore funding, which Republicans voted to cut, for $350 million that could have been applied to our embassies’ security worldwide. – Doug Dixon, Encinitas

Thanks to the courage of the U-T editorial staff, the deceitfulness of our president is finally exposed by professional journalism, a responsibility and duty major papers and TV networks, except Fox News, have intentionally avoided. – Chuck Sennewald, Escondido

In [Wednesday’s] paper, the editor made clear that President Obama’s handling of the Libyan embassy attack rings of some kind of conspiracy or major failure on the president’s part. The editor of a newspaper has a very important job for the well-being of a nation – to make sure the public is made aware of the truth, unbiased, whether the editor agrees with it or not.

The undignified remonstrations by the GOP to suggest that Obama was somehow involved in a scandal that included the storming of the Libyan [consulate] and the killing of our ambassador is reprehensible. The GOPs are blowing smoke, and will do anything to make sure Romney becomes president.

Vice President Biden has stated that the White House did not initially call the attack terrorism because of the information it received from our intelligence people. It was declared a terrorist attack when more details about the attack came to light.

If anyone should be a public whipping over this, it is Paul Ryan, who voted to cut funds for embassy security.

Where has the “united” in the United States of America gone? Sometimes we act as if we were in video game, and that the other political party is the enemy and must be destroyed. It does not take a brain surgeon to diagnose that our country is sick, and that we need cooperation to make it the shining example it once was. – Chip Milligan, San Diego

Gee, I know exactly what Roy Elliot (Letters, Oct. 29, asking “how can you trust Obama?”) means. After 9/11, the Iraq War, the Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch cover-ups, Abu Ghraib, “Brownie’s” “Heck of a job” after Hurricane Katrina and the complete and utter collapse of the world’s financial institutions, how could we have ever trusted George Bush and the Republicans? – Susan Schwartz, San Diego